Improvement in cotton-bale ties



Ch'ls ,G JGhnS GIL Open Slot Tie .116964 E EWE JUL 11 1.871

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES G. JOHNSEN, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-BALE TIES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES G. JoHNsEN, of the city of New Orleans, inthe parish of Orleans and the State of Louisiana, have invented anImprovement in Open-Slot Ties for Cotton-Baies, of which the followingis a specification:

My invention relates to the construction of open-slot ties; and myimprovement consists in providing the slot into which the hoop is lasti11- serted with a projection or point, hereinafter more fullydescribed, for the purpose of preventing such hoop or clasp from beingthrown out of the slot.

Figure l represents a plan of a tie embracing my improvement, the oblatehoop A being seated in its closed slot F, and the hook B being detached,and the open slot C havin g its form plainly shown. Fig. 2 shows a likeview, except that the clasp or hook is in its proper seat in the openslot C, and also, by dotted lines, the hoop B is shown as it appearswhen being inserted in that slot. Figx shows a side view of the tie, andchain attached to it, as it would appear upon the bale.

Now it will appear from Fig. 1 that the slot C would be ofthe same formas slot F but for the cutting out ofthe block a piece in the form of aparallelogram, producing the opening` between d and e in the outside,and extending inwardly to the point c, and the result is the slot C ofthe peculiar form shown, and the production of the point c itself, whichis the improvement I now claim.

The use of the point c needs but little explanation. When the oblatehoop B is upon its proper seat, as shown in-Fig. 2, and is kept upon it,the body of the block prevents its moving in one direction while thepoint e prevents its moving the other way, and out ofthe slot. But anypowerful compression of the bale by forces eX- erted in varyingdirections might raise the hoop B out of its seat and throw it over thepoint e, and out of the slot G, but for the point c, which would thencome into action. For when such compression takes place, and the hoop Bis forced out of its seat upward toward the other side of the slot, itis arrested by the point c before it gets high enough to pass over thepoint e, and

even in that position it would be impossible for the hoop to get out oi"the slot without mali-ing so great a change in its direction, as isshown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, which it could not do while therope or band around the bale was fast to the same.

I claim as my invention- The cotton-bale tie herein described, providedwith the closed slot F and open slot C, having the projections e and c,and the strengtheningbar D, when all are constructed and arranged asshown, for the purpose set forth.

GHAS. G. J OHNSEN.

lVitnesses CH. FE. KRULL, T. W. TEELEOED.

